Yesterday, for the thirteenth week running, thousands of people again turned up to Hyde Park, Sydney, Gadigal country, to protest against Israel’s war on Gaza.
The number of protesters over consecutive weeks across the last three months has been unprecedented in Australia, outnumbering (on a week-to-week basis) protests against wars in Iraq in the early 2000s and Vietnam during the 1970s.
According to Palestinian health authorities, deaths in Gaza since October the 7th, 2023 have now exceeded 22,000.
Speakers at Saturday’s rally included MCs Assala Sayara, Orphelia and Damien Ridgewell, Lebanese woman Dania Hawat, journalist Wendy Bacon, Dalia Ahq, and South Coast Labor Council rep and unionist, Arthur Rorris. All called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and across the Palestinian Occupied Territories.
Organisers - the Palestinian Action Group Sydney - have vowed to continue the protests for as long as the war persists.
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